Sophomore student from Canada seeking advice
Hey everyone!
I'm a Commerce & Economics student from Canada. I just finished my sophomore year and I've become interested in pursuing a career in financen, not necessarily investment banking.
My GPA is decent, I'm on the dean's list and member of the school's honour society however I've got no extra-curricular activities and I've got no accounting/finance office work experience but do have office work experience.
My main objective right now besides maintaining my academic work, is to land a good internship for next summer preferably and I'm wondering what I should do to prepare and give myself the best opportunity of doing so.
I hoping I could land a part-time accounting/finance related job next year during the school year. What do you guys advice me to do?
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1-Keep up good grades 2-Speak to your family, friends...anyone you can get a last minute gig with for this summer 3-Join the Commerce Society, Stock-club, maybe try to get a leadership position 4-Is there anything you've done in your past summers that you can gloss up and relate to finance/accounting ... that could be anything as diverse as working in an entry level office position (that you've already said that you have) 5-If I were you, I would still use the last 3 weeks of May to find an internship. It's very do-able in my opinion. If you can find a position, you'd be in a lot better position. The thing in the finance game is that you need that early start (i.e. sophomore summer) in today's competitive market
Hope this gives a few tips.
Great stuff! Thanks alot bryan1!
if you go to a decent school (that canadian banks recruit at), and your average is pretty high (85% or 90%, whatever's an A at your school), then you can get interviews with really shitty ECs and poor experience. not sure how the offer will go, as the people i know who got interviews like this were pretty socially inept.
but of course, try to fill your resume with SOMETHING. go to a temping/staffing agency, and you'll likely get an office placement doing marginally commerce-related work.
3bg: Thanks for the advice! What should I expect for the summer analyst interviews at the Big5?
i don't know, but know your shit
I was wondering if they will test you on the technicals like the do for FA positions.
yes there are tech Qs. examples: walk me through a DCF, tell me some commonly used comps, give me stock picks, how would you value ____. common stuff.
3gb: Thanks once again! :)
3bg: What's your take on doing the CSC?
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